This week The Eastern Echo asked students "what is something that you would like to see invented in your lifetime?
“A flying car would be really cool. It seems like you see it in older movies, so it would be something just cool and fun.”
McKenzie Hayward, secondary education, junior
“I would say something that I could teleport through. Technology really scares me, but I would say teleporting. That way I could go anywhere I wanted to at that moment.”
Nikayla Williams, social work, junior
“I would like to see something maybe along the lines of muscle therapy, like a machine that you could just run over the specific part of your body that’s sore instead of having to go through months and months of physical therapy.”
Jacklyn Helman, communications, junior
“Is there any device out there that can sort of be a game changer as far as how pressure-activated mines are disarmed? Because we really don’t have any other way but the traditional way for disarming pressure mines that we used hundreds of years ago. That’s a huge problem because now that you can buy those things in bulk; since the Cold War, people will buy hundreds of thousands of them at a time. I feel that there has to be something out there, like a chemical agent or something that can change that.”
Stephen Brannon, information assurance, senior
“I think we’re pretty good right now. Maybe a ship that could exit the Earth’s atmosphere with ease, but not many people can fly so I don’t see the point of that. It would have to be marketable.”
Jacob Rich, economics and mathematics, graduate
“Cures for diseases like cancer and AIDS, so that millions of people aren’t dying from those horrible diseases.”
Rachel Caloia, political science, freshman
